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Depends on how you set up the analogy, but sure it's not perfect. And I put "solve" in quotes precisely because it does no such thing. But a water molecule in
by beerandt 4y ago
Depends on how you set up the analogy, but sure it's not perfect.
And I put "solve" in quotes precisely because it does no such thing.
But a water molecule interacting with pressure gradients and waves is about the best eli5 or even eli18 that I've seen, with both particle and wave representations.
But maybe that's just because I'm a hydraulics engineer and "get it."
- version_five 4y agoYour analogy is fine for a classical treatment of electricity. At some quantum level I assume it's also wrong for water, but that's irrelevant.
- beerandt 4y agoYea, but we're talking about a 22 min video vs a 2 sentence explainer to grasp the very basics of a concept here. I love to argue the technical stuff as much as anyone, but the underappreciated aspect and skill of any engineering is eyeballing cost/benefit of any expenditure. Be it sizing elements of finite analysis, or sizing an analogy.